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8 Intriguing TV Spinoffs That Never Happened

When television spinoffs go right, they can succeed with flying colours. Just ask Frasier or The Flash, both of which were spawned from perfectly popular series but then managed to outshine their parent shows in most viewers’ hearts (Cheers and Arrow, respectively).

3) Rose Tyler: Earth Defence

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Doctor Who is such a long-running, expansive show that it makes complete sense that it has had numerous spinoffs over the years. Previously, the adult-orientated Torchwood and the child-friendly The Sarah Jane Adventures ran for four and five years a piece, and this year will see the debut of another in teen-centric Class.

Former showrunner Russell T. Davies actually had an idea for yet another spin-off at one point, based around ex-companion Rose Tyler (played by Billie Piper). It would have seen Rose protecting a parallel Earth – the one she found herself in after leaving the Doctor – from alien threats. The BBC were enthusiastic about the idea, with the plan being that it would be a series of annual one-off specials.

Even though work on the spinoff was ready to begin, Davies had a last-minute change of heart and scrapped the project. He later explained that he thought it was “a spinoff too far.”